Bishop Roger Mpungu †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Muyinga, Burundi

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
1924		Born
12 Apr 1955	31.2	Ordained Priest	Priest
6 Mar 1980	56.1	Appointed	Bishop of Muyinga, Burundi
4 May 1980	56.3	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Muyinga, Burundi
1 Jul 1994	70.5	Resigned	Bishop of Muyinga, Burundi
6 Dec 2007	83.9	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Muyinga, Burundi

MicroData Summary
Roger Mpungu
Bishop Roger Mpungu
(born 1924, died 6 Dec 2007)
Bishop Emeritus of Muyinga

Event Place
Birth Place Muhwanya, Vicariate Apostolic of Urundi
Ordained Bishop Open Air, Esplanade du Palais du Peuple, Kinshasa, Archdiocese of Kinshasa, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
Death Place Gasorwe

a priest for 52.6 years
a bishop for 27.5 years

Principal Consecrator:
Pope John Paul II
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Agnelo Cardinal Rossi †
Cardinal-Priest of Gran Madre di Dio
Joseph-Albert Cardinal Malula †
Archbishop of Kinshasa

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Pope John Paul II (1958)
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak † (1933)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop Bolesław Twardowski † (1919)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop St. Józef Bilczewski † (1901)
Archbishop of Lviv
Bishop Jan Maurycy Pawel Puzyna z Kosielsko † (1886)
Bishop of Kraków
Mieczyslaw Halka Cardinal Ledóchowski † (1861)
Archbishop of Gniezno e Poznań
Camillo Cardinal Di Pietro † (1839)
Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni a Porta Latina
Chiarissimo Cardinal Falconieri Mellini † (1826)
Archbishop of Ravenna
Pope Leo XII (1794)
(Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga †)
Henry Benedict Mary Clement Cardinal Stuart of York † (1758)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Jean-Berchmans Nterere † (1992)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Simon Ntamwana (1989)
Bishop Joachim Ntahondereye (2003)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q2161815

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 191, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 60, Number 4,571

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